Imagine you are a coroner. You walk into the scene of a crime and your job is to discover the cause of death. What evidence and information will you use to draw your conclusions? In many instances, the coroner gets the body and the crime scene investigators retain the evidence.

This past week, Dr. Maria Stamp, Porter County Health Officer called upon agencies within our county to address, determine and establish guidelines moving forward on a multi-dimensional approach to curbing Opioid abuse.

For those who have been following the heroin epidemic in our region, there is more to
the deadly drug. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent. Fentanyl has been the typical additive to heroin on the street.